Moxie

Name: Moxie
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Music
Released: March 3, 2021
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Alycia Pascual-Pena, Anjelika Washington, Clark Gregg, Emily Hopper, Hadley Robinson

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): March 3, 2021 | PG-13

Starring: Alycia Pascual-Pena, Anjelika Washington, Clark Gregg, Emily Hopper, Hadley Robinson, Ike Barinholtz, J.J. Totah, Josephine Langford, Kevin Dorff, Lauren Tsai, Marcia Gay Harden, Nico Hiraga, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sabrina Haskett, Sydney Park

Summary: Fed up with the sexist and toxic status quo at her high school, a shy 16-year-old finds inspiration from her mother's rebellious past and anonymously publishes a zine that sparks a school-wide, coming-of-rage revolution.

Director: Amy Poehler

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Music

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 111 min

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Tara Brady

Mar 5, 2021

As a love letter from grown-up Riot grrrls to their growing-up daughters, it’s a lovely cross-generational gesture. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Mar 2, 2021

This is a film that pulls off the difficult balancing act of carrying an important and uplifting message while delivering consistent laughs and introducing us to some wonderfully badass teens. Read full review

Tomris Laffly

Mar 1, 2021

It’s a welcome entry into a familiar genre that will resonate with young audiences burdened by the unwritten rules of their respective educational institutions. And that’s thanks in large part to an immensely likable ensemble cast guided by Poehler’s sure-handed energy behind the camera, as well as the film’s ambitious aims to be intersectional in its social and political themes. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Mar 2, 2021

For all its energy and charm, this overlong film contains its share of undermining missteps. Read full review

Johnny Oleksinski

Mar 4, 2021

A frustratingly bland young-adult feminist comedy without good jokes, Moxie is a cross between a hokey ’90s family sitcom and a vastly superior teen film, such as Lady Bird. Read full review

Jen Chaney

Mar 3, 2021

It’s obvious that Poehler and her colleagues have taken great care to impart all the right civic and social lessons, and that’s good. But watching Moxie, you wish they could have exhaled more and allowed more unresolvable messiness to infiltrate the movie’s spaces. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Mar 1, 2021

The film is intensely, almost radically humourless, which is hard to ignore and in fact hard to bear, because of this film’s obvious resemblance to recent great movies like Booksmart or Lady Bird and particularly at times the hard-edged classic Election. Read full review

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Frankwoods23789

Mar 3, 2021

Amy Poehler’s Moxie Unites a New Generation of Rebel Girls that gives us good positive messages and good characters that entretain you in the 2 hours that it dures.

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Cabitsu

Mar 4, 2021

Although not fully good at portraying everything and makes some mistakes this movie portrays a much needed movement of showing sexual harrasment in a light that is useful for acknowledging that there is things in life as women we have to deal with that shouldn’t be one of life’sAlthough not fully good at portraying everything and makes some mistakes this movie portrays a much needed movement of showing sexual harrasment in a light that is useful for acknowledging that there is things in life as women we have to deal with that shouldn’t be one of life’s disappointments but something that can be changed. It is not the best representation but in this world this is the first step in right direction. Hopefully representations will improve but because of the overall message it deserves the best.… Expand

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MetaLou

Mar 21, 2021

This is a positive, heartfelt, thoroughly enjoyable film. It speaks to this exact moment in time, when young women are stepping into movements for racial and gender justice, breaking down barriers, recognizing and embracing intersectional complexities. It's the anti-Mean Girls. It's notThis is a positive, heartfelt, thoroughly enjoyable film. It speaks to this exact moment in time, when young women are stepping into movements for racial and gender justice, breaking down barriers, recognizing and embracing intersectional complexities. It's the anti-Mean Girls. It's not playing for laughs, and it's not Hollywoodized; it's a sweet vision of how small acts of courage can create real change.… Expand

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wheeelertron

Mar 10, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. As good as the female-led punk soundtrack is to this film the film itself seems totally un-punk in it's reality, and as fun as it was I am disappointed with what Poehler achieved with this project IT'S JUST ALL TOO EASY TO SHOOT THIS FILM DOWN and while I can see it resonating with a young audience the knowing self-aware humor will be the only thing, along with the music, that adults will take from this, it's not good, and it paints a picture of a surreal and slightly messed-up world where characters you don't like are so obviously two-dimensional you question what they are doing, not to mention all the teenagers marching around confidently like young adults, while the adults behave like children and a convincing allegation of rape is trivialised as a spring-board to the next exciting moment in the story...I'm sorry, what? The lead actor holds this story together but this film is a fantasy and I'm not really sure what we're supposed to draw from it, and what is just supposed to be a joke, and that can be a problem… Expand

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MetacriticOnur

Jul 14, 2021

bad
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not good in any manner or degree.

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UncleWillard

Mar 3, 2021

While it's not as bad as the woke reboot of Jay and Silent Bob, it's got the same tone. This is the fantasy of every basic white girl who even thought about going to a BLM protest. Ill-informed pseudo-feminist crab to appeal to 15-25 year old white girls who feel oppressed despite the sumWhile it's not as bad as the woke reboot of Jay and Silent Bob, it's got the same tone. This is the fantasy of every basic white girl who even thought about going to a BLM protest. Ill-informed pseudo-feminist crab to appeal to 15-25 year old white girls who feel oppressed despite the sum total of "privilege" they've enjoyed for their short lives. Pass.… Expand

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Yabani

Jun 8, 2021

Netflix'in klasik feminist filmlerinden biri. Her zaman her yerde her şekilde kadınlar mağdurdur kafasında bir film.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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